Associate Professor, Physician in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Panagis Galiatsatos, MD, MHS is an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is the co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Health Equity Steering Committee and the co-director and co-founder of Medicine for the Greater Good, a novel medical initiative impacting over 10,000 Baltimore City lives in regards to health and wellness while at the same time creating physician-citizens. He is also the director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic at Johns Hopkins. He has published over 50 research articles, with a focus on health equity, community engagement, and contextual-level variables impact on health outcomes. He is also a co-author of a book series, "Building Health Communities", where a review in JAMA discusses "this book literally has the potential to save lives". He has a TED talk discussing the need for healthcare to engage with the local community for health equitable outcomes. He completed his undergraduate studies at Temple University, his medical school at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, his internal medicine training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, his critical care medicine training at the National Institutes of Health, and his pulmonary training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. During the pandemic, Dr. Galiatsatos and colleagues coordinate community engagement to assure all populations were able to access COVID-19 updates and resources in an effort to assure compliance with public health requests.